Improvement in reversible collars



tant @anni Weense-aw- CYRUS W. SALADE, OF CIRCLEVILLE, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 86,338, dated .Tamm/ry 26, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVERSIBLE COLLARS.

The Schedule referred 'to ln these Letters Patent and making part of the lame To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Crans W. SALADEE, of Circleville, Ohio, have invented a new and improved Mode of Making a Reversible Paper or Linen Collar; and I hereby declare the -following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the ac conipanying drawings, and to the yletters of reference marked thereon.

Thenature of my invention consists in the formation of a reversible paper or linen collar, so shaped and folded that it can be worn either as the usual turn-down collar, or as a complete standing collar; and in that o f imparting to the collar, when worn as a standing collar, an excellency, in point of shape and proof against perspiration, never before attained.

'The manufacture of this collar, in detail, does not differ from that of the ordinary turn-down collar, but is confined to such shape, before folding, as to admit of its being worn either edge up, (reversible,) so that the same collar may be worn as a perfect turndown or standing collar. l

Standing collars, as now universally made and worn, 'are of a single thickness of material, while the turn-down styles are of double thicknesses of material, by reason of their being folded.

If, therefore, we take a collar of appropriate shape, and folded, and wea; it as a standing collar, we have the advantage of the inside fold as a protection against perspiration; as, in this case, the inside fold, instead of the outside one, comes in contact with the neck, and hence the collar can be worn a much longer time in this way than any of the present stylesof standing collars; and to this is added the advantage of getting a better-shaped standing collar, by reason of folding it, by which means the outside fold (which represents the standing collar when worn as such) is made to stand more flaring at the top than any of the standing collars now in use do.

I do not, however, confine my claims to a reversible collar' alone, as herein shown and described, as I contemplate manufacturing a special style of folded standing collar, and the surface of the inside fold, next the neck, maybe provided with a perspiration-proof cloth lining, should that be deemed necessary.

In the drawings- Figure l represents substantially the shape of my reversible collar before folding, and the dotted line indicates the line of folding.

Figure 2 represents the collar folded and in position,

(with cravat,) as a standing collar, and the dotted line showing the inside fold next the neck.

Figure 3 represents aback view of the same, showing the sawetooth-shaped catch,-A, made in the outside fold of the collar, for the purpose of holding the cravat in position at that point.

Figure 4 represents the collar spread out straight, showing all the perforations by which the cravat or butterdy neck-tie is held, when used either as a turn-down or standing collar. The perforations B B are to hold the cravat in position when worn as a turn-down collar, and C C, the perforations for the reception of the ends of the butterfly neck-tie, when desirable to wear it; so that, in one and the same collar, I combine both the standing and turn-down styles, and also adapt it to the wearing of either4 a full cravat .or the butterdy neck-tie, in either positionlin which it is worn.

Figure 5 represents the collar reversed and in pos tion as a turn-down collar, with full cravat.

Figure 6 represents thesame with the butteriiy neck-tie in position.

That part of the fold immediately around the buttonholes in front, and which is exposed to view when nov ycravat or neck-tie is used, may be colored or otherwise configurated, by printing thereon some fanciful and appropriate designs, as shown in iig. l.

' Thus arranged, andA when worn with a gold stud or.

other ornamentalbutton or fastening, a very chaste and neat appearance is presented, without the use of` any kind of neck-tie or cravat.

I make no claim to the mere idea of turning upside down any of the turn-down collars, as now made and used, as their form will prohibit this; but

What I do claim as new, of my invention, and desire to ,secure by Letters Patent, is

A vreversible paper or linen collar, so formed and folded that, in itself, it shall represent a perfect turndown collar, when worn as such, and a perfect standing collar when reversed, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above-described mode of making reversible paper or linen collars, I have hereunto signed my name, this 4th day f January, 1869.

' OYRUS W..SALADEE.

Witnesses:

A. L. CARRIER, WM. STEWART. 

